XO Performance

Until now, one of the biggest impediments to testing the XO has been getting the thing to boot. Once booted, you have 3mb left to work with. There isn’t much room to begin to debug where the pain points are.

The good news is that Fedora 10 Beta – snapshot#1 was announced on Friday. Performance using the snap#1 live image has dramatically improved. While by no means a speed demon, there is definitely more room to begin to exercise the hardware/software. As Steve Salevan pointed out, one can actually start the webcam application cheese.